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The lakes of the Aube region are best known for the thousands of sandhill cranes that stop here in November (over 20,000) and for being France's main site for the post-mating stopover of the black stork (Ciconia nigra). [24] The lakes are also home to a wide variety of fish, mainly: pike, carp, roach, perch, pike-perch, tench, and trout. [28]
This list of lakes in France roughly distinguishes three categories: the mountain lakes, sorted first by massif, and then by départements; the lakes in plains, ...
The Bassin de la Villette (French pronunciation: [basɛ̃ də la vilɛt], La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808. It was filled with water on 2 December 1808.
Lake Huron has the longest shoreline of all the Great Lakes, stretching more than 3,800 miles. One of the most photographed spots is Turnip Rock, near Port Austin, Michigan.
The lake is roughly 350 metres (1,150 ft) wide and 930 metres (3,050 ft) long, with a circumference of 3.09 kilometres (1.92 mi) and a total surface area of 43 hectares (110 acres). [2] The lake water is replenished by several small streams : the Corbon, Haras, d'Ermont, and d'Andilly, all of them under 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) long .
Locals say this quaint cafe serves the best hot chocolate in Paris. Located on Rue Rivoli, right across from the stunning Jardin des Tuileries, you can burn off the sugar immediately afterwards by ...
The heart of the park is an artificial lake of 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) surrounding the Île de la Belvédère (Belvedere island), a rocky island with steep cliffs created from the old gypsum quarry. At the top of the cliffs is the Temple de la Sibylle, fifty meters above the lake. Two bridges cross the lake to the island.
The lake is bordered by the steep summits of the Mont du Chat and the Chaîne de l'Épine on the west, and Bauges Mountains on the east, which form its shores. Lac du Bourget was made famous by several romantic poems of Alphonse de Lamartine , including Le Lac , [ 4 ] as well as by descriptions by Xavier de Maistre , Honoré de Balzac , and ...